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Gulfport (the beach), Harrison County, MS
10/16/17
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| Great Blue Heron | Horseshoe crab | Killdeer | Same Killdeer | Marbled Godwit |
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| Marbled Godwit | Semi-palmated Plover | Same Semi-palmated Plover |
10/15/17
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| Ruddy Turnstone | Marbled Godwits and other birds, maybe Willets | Juvie Brown Pelican | Dog |
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| Black Skimmers |
10/14/17
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| Common Buckeye | Gulf Fritillary | Same Gulf Fritillary | Lilies | Little Yellow |
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| Long-tailed Skipper |
10/13/17
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| Semi-palmated Plover | Ruddy Turnstone | Marbled Godwit | Lobster/crayfish skeleton? |
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| Great Blue Heron | Great Blue Heron | Black Skimmers |
10/12/17
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| American Snout (at the beach) | Drooping Autumn Crocus | Black Skimmer | Black Skimmer | Common Starlings |
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| Black Skimmers and gulls in the process of moving to a new spot on the beach | Mostly Black Skimmers | Black Skimmers and gulls |
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| Cloudless Sulphur on a Turk's Cap | Great Blue Heron and gulls | Gulf Fritillary | Another Gulf Fritillary on a Turk's Cap | Gulf Fritillary |
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| Long-tailed Skipper (Urbanus proteus) | Gulls and Marbled Godwit | Plover? | Semi-palmated Plover |
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| Snowy Egret flushing out at least four and maybe six fish | Same Snowy Egret flushing out three fish | Flying terns |
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| Terns, Black Skimmer, gulls and a a large bird that looks like a Black Skimmer/gull hybrid | Terns and a few Black Skimmers moving |
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| Verbena on grass median | White Winged Dove |
10/11/17
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| Huge cargo ship headed for the port | Scarlet-bodied Wasp Moth (Cosmosoma myrodora), which had flown inside | Gulf Fritillary on a Firewheel flower | Gulf Fritillary on asters | Gulf Fritillary on another Firewheel |
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| White Pelicans, which never returned after this evening |
10/18/15
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| Common Buckeye | Willet | Mole cricket nymph, rescued from street |
10/18/15
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| Killdeer | Diving Forster's Tern | Ruddy Turnstone | Gulf Fritillary | Forster's Tern |
10/17/15
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| Sunrise | Blue Jay |
Jones Park 10/16/15
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| The marina, with a lighthouse with ladder access |
10/15/15
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| Black Skimmers | Black Skimmers on a sand bar | Hermit crab | Sanderling |
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| Royal Terns, a Black Skimmer and a gull | Some local color | Felix at the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center | Post-mating Common Green Darner pair |
10/15/15
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| Sunset | Forster's Terns | Gull | Black Skimmer |
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| Variegated Meadowhawk | Black Skimmers and Bonaparte's Gulls against Biloxi backdrop | Black Skimmers flying over the ocean | Black Skimmers disturbed on the beach: a man with a dog walked through the middle of them. | Black Skimmers resting on the beach |
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| False Garlic | Great Blue Heron | Ribbons | Little Yellow | Verbena |
10/20/13
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| Plant bug (Polymerus basalis). ID thanks to Yurika Alexander. | Moonflower (Ipomea alba) | Cuban Brown Anole | Sunset scene |
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| Autumn Crocuses | Same Autumn Crocuses | Sanderling |
10/17/13
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| Black Skimmer | Black Skimmers flying | Willet, plover and Sanderling. Plover may be nonbreeding Black-bellied. | Forster's Tern |
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| Sanderlings | Trailing Wild Bean flowers | Trailing Wild Bean showing bean pod | Another pea family plant |
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| Hermit crab | Common Buckeye, but a very fast flyer |
10/17/10
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| Black Skimmer in flight, with unequal upper and lower bill sizes clearly visible | Black Skimmers, Royal Terns and gulls | Black Skimmers and other birds |
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| Black Skimmer in flight, with tail feathers clearly visible | Big bird footprint, with large feather for size comparison | Maybe the bird that made the big footprint. Definitely not a Great Blue Heron. |
10/16/10
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| Dainty Sulphur (Nathalis iole) |
10/15/10
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| Black Skimmer flying over gulls | Black Skimmer doing "skimming," i.e., scooping prey from the water with its lower beak | Skimming by another Black Skimmer | Semipalmated Plover |
10/14/10
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| Black Skimmers in flight | Gulfport sunset | Group of Black Skimmers flying |
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